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Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

William Splichal was born in May 1924 in Lincoln, Nebraska. His father worked for the city and his mother raised the...

Vincent Pale was in Philadelphia when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He and some friends decided to...

Albert Porche went into the service after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The armed forces were trying to recruit as many...

Norman Bussel worked building B-25 bombers [Annotator’s Note: North American B-25 Mitchell] at the Fisher Body plant [...

Thomas Paris was born in Nashville, Tennessee in May 1926. He had one sister. His father was a salesman for Remington....

Oran Harris said that while he was on Palawan, he learned that Franklin D. Roosevelt had died, and the news made him...

Carey Eleser was born in August 1924 in Roseville, Louisiana and grew up in Ponchatoula. He was born at a Catholic...

Walter Ram went through basic training for the Army. He was discharged after a year in the Army. When the Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: Edgar De Pue Osgood shows a picture of the USS Iowa (BB-61) that he took through a porthole.] That...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

Inouye respects the United States because they were able to say after the war that it was wrong that Japanese-Americans...

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